MODERN CLASSICS FLIGHT TO ARRAS

On 22 May 1940, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry set off on a reconnaissance operation from Orly over Nazi-occupied France to Arras. It was a pointless mission, since the Armistice was only weeks away, but still so dangerous that he was not expected to survive it. That journey and his return home are recorded in Flight to Arras, a profound and passionate meditation on mortality and war.

'The most important book yet written about this war . . . a magic text, at times almost Biblical, of why men fight and how they feel in the presence of death' - Time, February 1942